u/sideshowbvo

If you have to use Community Water Management, how much is your bill? I have to use them for water and sewer, and my bill for this month is 81 dollars, and it's usually around 70, which is still high, I think. I'm one person! Am I just stuck paying these outrageous rates?

The cheaters thread was the best thing we had all month, who took it down? Drop your cheaters here, folks.

So like the title says, I've been building credit, saving money, quitting vices, all to get a car, an inconvenient necessity in the US. I've done pretty well, I had *just* enough saved for a 20% down payment on a good car, I was just biding my time, waiting for the right deal.

My aunt and her husband came down last weekend(note:I don't have a lot of close family, moms dead, absent dad, iykyk) and I was just venting to them about money, about how much a billion dollars is, etc.(we all know the figures here) and how if you don't start with anything, it's hard to build anything. I don't usually talk like that to family or important people, I obviously want them to think I'm hunky dory, but I think I really got through to them in a way they haven't considered.

The next day after they left, my aunt sent me 2500 dollars. She knew I wouldn't accept it when they were here and I knew I couldn't send it back. Obviously this is a huge blessing, tips the scales on my car fund, and I'm very grateful, but I hate that it kind of proves my point. I won't squander this opportunity though; I'm starting to see a future where I don't struggle all the time.